PS Palette Tutorial Reverse phase to create emerald green Mantis

Did your mantis work feel opaque enough to be green enough? The simple way we teach you today can make a mantis look like an emerald.

Original artwork Analysis

We filmed a good praying mantis on the leaves, and the background black highlighted the main body well. However, the normal shooting mantis more mediocre, more insipid color, can not show the mantis more details.

The simple counter-surrender mantis is flexible.

Reverse-phase operation allows us to make praying mantis very green.

1, open the picture

First, we open the original artwork in Photoshop. We are using the Photoshop CS4 version, because the function is relatively simple, so the shadow friends can choose various versions of PS for processing.

2, cut the screen

We want the main body is praying mantis, so you can cut the screen in the way the proportion of the mantis to become larger. You can use the cutting tool to cut out the desired picture. As the main body of the mantis is slender, we use a vertical composition to cut.

3, the Curve tool adjusts the brightness

We see the original mantis is more gloomy, so we can use the Curve tool for the picture to enhance a little brightness. We can press "Ctrl + M" to pull up the curve adjustment tool, slightly upward pull the curve, enhance the brightness of the screen.

4, adjust the color order

We choose the color-level tool to adjust the contrast of the picture. Can press "Ctrl+l" adjust the excellent level adjustment tool, according to the work of the situation to adjust, we this piece of work slightly pulled back a little high light, so that mantis more texture.

5. Anti-Phase Mantis

Cut down we have to reverse the mantis, press the "ctrl+i" using inverse function, so that the black part of the picture into white, praying mantis into Purple blue, do not worry, and so will use hue/saturation function, so that the praying mantis back to green.

6. Adjust hue and saturation

Press Ctrl + U to bring up the hue/saturation tool, push and pull the Hue slider, you will find the mantis color will be changed, will mantis color back to green on it, and then push and pull the following two lines of saturation and lightness of the slider, fine tuning can be.

Perfect Mantis's whole and local

Continue to create a sense of reality for the mantis.

1 Use the Color-level tool "Ctrl+l" again to tune the outstanding Order tool. Slide the dark part slightly into the middle to make the overall hue more lively. This step also requires us to adjust to the picture we have taken to make the mantis more pure.

2 sharpening local general processing after the work, we need to sharpen. You can sharpen the picture by using the USM Sharpening feature in the filter. Notice that the "number" is less and that the radius is larger.

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